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Title Author Year
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (249) Emily Dickinson 1861
Long Weekend Megan Pinto 2026
Song of Myself, 46 Walt Whitman 1891
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part] William Shakespeare 2017
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
These Hands, If Not Gods Natalie Diaz 2013
Still Life with Lemons in a Wicker Basket Richard Scott 2025
Ongoing Jenny Xie 2018
El Dorado Edgar Allan Poe 1849
Vows (for a gay wedding) Joseph O. Legaspi 2018
After Apple-Picking Robert Frost 1914
Buffalo Bill ’s E. E. Cummings 1976
To a Young Poet Zaina Alsous 2025
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 1842
The Goops Gelett Burgess 1903
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank] William Shakespeare 1603
Jet Tony Hoagland 1998
I speak with the future. Jane Hirshfield 2026
This human life Maggie Smith 2026

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